The Washington critic., 1887-03-01
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Great Britain has suspended diplomatic
relations with Venezuela.
Queen Victoria's jubilee will be celc'
'iated on the olst OF June.
Lord Salisbury spoke In the House of
Lords against bi-mctalsm.
In future no foreigners will be llcen led +
act as pilots in British waters.
The New York and Southern Telegraph
Company has been Incorporated
1t is estimated that the recent earthquakes
In France and Italy destroyed 600 iiveI.
Stringent measures nrc to be applied In
Alsace as result Of the recent elections.
The report OF Cardinal Jacobini's death
was premature; he did not expire until noon
yesterday.
The survivors OF the recent steamship col
llsion of the coast OF Brazil have arrived at
plymouth.
The elections In New South Wales have
resulted in the return Of SO free-tradcrs and
al protectionists.
Policeman Rourke OF New York was SEN
fenced TO imprisonment for life for killing
Roundsman Montgomery.
The feature OF Wall street dealings yes
terday was the break In tho price Of Amer
lean Cottonseed OH Trust certificates.
On Sunday night the mercury fell below
thirty degrees 10 South Carolina, and II is
feared that the fruit crop has been destroyed.
Pennsylvania undertakers have had intro.
duced into the Legislature bill requr-
Ing funeral directors 10 be examined and H.
censed.
A fire at Richland Centre, Wis, Sunday
night, burned three OF the finest blocks In
the city and several others. The loss will
be S4O,U00.
The steamer Ashland, from Philadelphia
for Richmond, Va, broke her shaft In Della
ware Bay February 81 and was towed back
to Philadelphia.
An epidemic Of measles prevails at Lewes,
Del. Five persons have died within the past
two weeks, and several hundred persons are
more or less prostrated. I
The report that the reduction OF car fares
In Philadelphia would be followed by a
corresponding reduction In the wages
OF car drivers and conductors Is denied.
il. q. Wilcox Of Bangor, N. Y. injured
10 the late railroad accident at Hartford,
VT, died yesterday Of erysipelas, making
the total deaths resulting from the accident
thirty.
In Chicago, yesterday, Judge Garnett
divorced Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver OF
New York from Albert U. Aver on the
ground of desertion. Mrs. Aver was al
lowed the custody OF her two daughters.
The roof Of the charging department In
the Bessener steel works OF tho Cleveland
Rolling.Mnl Company, Cleveland, Ohio,
fell in with crash yesterday, aud killed
Isaac Edwards and injured several others.
The Illicit distillery at the corner OF Col
umbia and Lorraine streets, South Brook
lyD, was raided yesterday by United States
marshals. Gerald McNally, Michael Casey
and Thomas Collins were arrested aud the
fixtures and some spirits were seized.
Henry Tillotson was shot and killed near
Hays Station, Miss, yesterday, by IL. II.
Killipgsworth, the latter having found his
enemy with his (killlpgsworth's) wife. A
| Jury brought In q verdict Of justiaable
homicide.
At Meadville, Pa, yesterday r. p. Burns,
convicted Of placing q dynamite cartridge
under stone building owned by man
against whom he had grudge, was fined
| $500 and costs and sentenced TO three years
ut hard labor In the penitentiary.
| Judge Gresham, In indianapolis, yester-
day, decided the Perkins contempt case by
discharging the prisoner, on the ground
that Commissioner Van Bonn had no jurls-
diction and could not compel Perkins to
testify against the Democrats charged with
election frauds.
Justice Engelhardt, who performed the
marriage Of Nina Van Zandt to proxy for
August Spies, the Anarchist, returned the
alleged marriage certificate to the county
clerk In Chicago yesterday. The clerk will
not file the paper until he has obtained legal
advice on the subject.
Rev. Rollo Ogden, pastor OF tho Case
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, o.,
resigned Sunday on account OF "a change,
or rather growth and maturing Of theoiOg-
zeal opinions which makes It Impossible for
him, in good conscience, TO longer assent to
the doctrinal standards OF the Presbyterian
Church,
Philip Blanche, young German, called
on his sweetheart, Mary Rodeke, at Akron,
Ohio, Sunday Light. He asked her to
marry him and she had given her consent.
lie wanted her to name au early day, but
she insisted on putting OF the marriage un-
I'll next summer. Bidding the girl good
night, Blanche stepped outside the door
and shot himself, dying In a few minutes.
The Equitable q. II. Association.
The February report of the Equitable
furnished by the secretary, Mr.. John Joy
Edison, shows decided increase OF bust
ness over previous months The advances
made to theshareholdefs purchasing and pay
Ing for property for the past month
amounted to S43, 100, the average rate being
C6 per cent. The number OF shares taken
In the last issue (the 12th) Is 2,15i, which
| is g5i shares In excess Of auV former issue